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Speaker 1: You're listing to a Muma Mea podcast. Mumma Mea acknowledges

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Speaker 1: the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast

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Speaker 1: is recorded on. Hi. I'm Nicole Madigan from Mummamea's twice

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Speaker 1: daily news podcast, The Quickie with Your Headlines. For Thursday

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Speaker 1: October twenty four, Slavery, colonialism, and climate change are expected

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Speaker 1: to dominate the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting being held

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Speaker 1: in Samoa from tomorrow. The meeting that has been labeled

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Speaker 1: a big deal for the Pacific, will be the first

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Speaker 1: presided by King Charles and Queen Ca Miller since taking

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Speaker 1: the throne. It's also the first time Prime Minister Anthony

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Speaker 1: Albanesi will visit the Pacific nation as his country's leader.

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Speaker 1: Foreign Minister Penny Wong says the government is working with

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Speaker 1: Pacific nations to increase climate resilience, pointing to ambitious targets

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Speaker 1: to combat climate change. Minister Wong says she'll also raise

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Speaker 1: the issue of gender equality, claiming it's not just an

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Speaker 1: equity and ethical issue, but a developmental one as well. Well.

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Speaker 1: Israeli strikes have pounded Beirut's southern suburbs, as Hesbela claims

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Speaker 1: it fired precision guided missiles for the first time at

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Speaker 1: Israeli targets. The strike sent thick columns of flames into

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Speaker 1: the night sky. Shortly after, an Israeli military spokesman issued

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Speaker 1: evacuation warnings for the neighborhood. Lebanon's health ministry says another

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Speaker 1: strike came without warning, killing one person and wounding five others,

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Speaker 1: including a child. In a statement released Wednesday, Iran backed

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Speaker 1: Hesbela said it was escalating attacks on Israel, launching new

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Speaker 1: types of drones on Israeli targets, including a military factory

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Speaker 1: on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. The intensifying exchanges come

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Speaker 1: as Washington calls on Israel to do more to help Gazans.

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Speaker 1: Popular broadcaster Jackie O broke down in tears live on

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Speaker 1: air this morning, revealing she secretly went to a rehabilitation

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Speaker 1: clinic for drug and alcohol addiction. Reading from her memoir

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Speaker 1: The Whole Truth, The Kiss FM star admitted lying to

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Speaker 1: listeners in twenty twenty two when she took time away

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Speaker 1: from her breakfast radio show in November. At the time,

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Speaker 1: she blamed COVID related fatigue, She said separating from her

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Speaker 1: husband in twenty eighteen and being forced to spend time

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Speaker 1: away from her daughter Kitty, triggered the addiction, which included painkillers,

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Speaker 1: sleeping pills, and alcohol. Jackie agreed to seek help after

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Speaker 1: telling her best friend Jemma O'Neill about her addiction. Liam

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Speaker 1: Payne's girlfriend, Kate Cassidy, has posted a heartfelt tribute to

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Speaker 1: the former One Direction singer. In the Instagram post, Cassidy

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Speaker 1: described Pain as her best friend and the love of

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Speaker 1: her life, saying her heart had been shattered by his death.

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Speaker 1: The Influenza revealed Pain had written her a note stating

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Speaker 1: that he hoped to marry her within the next year.

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Speaker 1: Payne died of multiple traumas, including internal and external hemorrhage,

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Speaker 1: after falling from a third floor balcony on October sixteen.

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Speaker 1: That's Your Evening News headlines. On tomorrow's episode of The Quickie,

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Speaker 1: we find out how to stay mentally fit as we

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Speaker 1: head into the silly season. Listen to The Quickie wherever

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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.